Cosmopolitan distribution
distribution of an organism across all or most of the world
In biology, an organism is said to be cosmopolitan (or cosmopolite) if it can be found almost anywhere on the Earth.
Examples include:
- Humans
- House dust mite
- Red admiral (painted lady butterfly)
- Many cetacean species, including the orca
- Brown rat
- Peregrine falcon
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